Isabel Cookson Award - Paleobotanical

DR. ISABEL COOKSON is remembered as one of the most eminent palaeontologists of the past century (1893-1973). This award and fund was established in 1976 by a bequest from Isabel Cookson. The fund supports the Isabel C. Cookson Paleobotanical Award, which is given to the student who delivers the best contributed paper in paleobotany or palynology at the annual meeting. The Cookson award distributes $500 in years where the award is given.

2004 - Caroline Strömberg, Swedish Museum of Natural History For for her paper entitled “From subtropical forests to savanna: phytolith evidence concerning Tertiary vegetation change and grass evolution in the North American interior.”

2002 - Marcela Martinez-Milla, For for her paper entitled "Leaf architecture of Anacardiaceae, phylogeny and biogeography." The presentation was co-authored with Sergio R. S. Cevallos-Ferriz, and Teresa Terrazal-Salgado.

2001 - Aude Soria, For her presentation on "Development and architecture of a Gondwanan representative of the late Devonian genus Pietzchia (Cladoxylopsida)," coauthored by Brigitte Meyer-Berthaud and Stephen E. Scheckler.

2000 - Michael G. Riley, University of Alberta For his paper co-authored with Ruth Stockey and entitled, "A new aquatic angiosperm with a floating rosette of leaves from the St. Mary River formation of southern Alberta."

1998Jennifer Cordi, SUNY Binghamton For for her paper entitled "Devonian vascular plant groups and the inference of macroevolutionary pattern and process: A phylogenetic comparative approach to the analysis of trends in early vascular plant evolution,"

1994 - Sharon D. Kalvins of Southern Illinois University For her paper co-authored with Lawrence C. Matten and entitled "The frond of Lyceya hibernica (Lyginopteridales) from the Uppermost Devonian of Ireland."

1993 - Brian J. Axsmith, Ohio State University For his paper co-authored with Lawrence C. Matten and entitled "A reconsideration of the conifer cone Glyptolepis."

1991Susanna Magallon-Puebla For her paper entitled "The mixed Permian flora from south-central Mexico,"

Ben A. LePage For his paper co-authored with James F. Basinger on "The evolutionary and biogeographic history of Pseudolarix."

1990 - Patrick Herendeen of Indiana University For his paper, "Fossil history of the Leguminosae from the Eocene of southeastern North America."

1989 - Debra A. Willard, University of Illinois, Urbana For her paper, "Phylogenetic analysis of lepidodendrid lycopods and ecological influences on their evolution."

1988 - Kirk R. Johnson, Yale University For his paper, "Megafloral biostratigraphy for the late Cretaceous and early Paleocene of the northern Great Plains, Montana and North Dakota."

1987 - Wilson A. Taylor, Ohio State University For his paper, "Evolutionary and developmental significance of megaspore wall ultrastructure."

1986 - David C. Wight, Ohio University For his paper, "Primary vascular architecture of aneurophytalean progymnosperms and its bearing on the evolutionary relationships of the group."

1985 - Warren L. Kovach, Indiana University For his paper, "A Cretaceous megaspore flora from the Dakota Formation of Kansas."

1984 - Jon J. Hamer, Ohio University For his paper, "A small Medullosa from the Appalachian Basin."

1983 - Michael A. Cichan, Ohio State University For his presentation "The vascular cambium in Carboniferous plants: Arthropitys communis."

1982 - Michael Zavada, University of Connecticut For his presentation "Gymnosperm-angiosperm pollen wall homologies and their bearing on early angiosperm evolution ."

1981- Steven Manchester from Indiana University For his paper "Fossil fruits and the history of the walnut family."

1980- Sara P. Stubblefield, Ohio University For her paper "Embryogeny of an Upper Carboniferous Iycopod."

1979 - WM. A. Dimichele, University of Illinois, Urbana For his paper entitled "Distribution and evolution of Lepidodendron and Lepidophlois in Upper Carboniferous coal swamps."

1978- Edith L. Smoot, Ohio State University For her paper "The phloem in the Lower Pennsylvanian fern Etapteris."

1977 - David F. Brauer, State University of New York, BinghamtonFor his paper "Barinophyton citrulliforrne Arnold from the Famennian of Pennsylvania."

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